More on NYC G&T Programs and Math Briefs
My interview with Fox 5 and the NY Post coverage of the "bad advice" in the NY math briefs
I talked to Bianca Peters at Fox 5 News about Zohran Mamdani’s proposal to eliminate G&T programs and why it won’t solve any of the real problems we have in NYC public schools.
NYSED Math Briefs “are really bad advice”
I am grateful that NY Post covered the NY Math Briefs and its unscientific claims about math quizzes causing anxiety in kids and the bad recommendation on direct instruction and repeated practice of math facts.
Lats week we shared Professor letter to NYSED on why the Math Briefs should be withdrawn.
“There is a 50-year consensus that explicit instruction works better,” Solomon said. “The brief very bizarrely is condescending of explicit instruction. [The authors] dismissed it and said it’s not that important, but if teachers start following that advice literally, we’re screwed,” he said. “That’s really bad advice.”
What I am reading this week
Last week in the NJ Gubernatorial Debate Candidate Mikie Sherrill said that “places like Louisiana and Mississippi, I think some of the worst schools in the entire nation.”
This was clearly a misinformed opinion and, like most politicians, Mikie is unaware of the Southern Surge - which is the most important recent development in education policy.
explains why low-income students in Louisiana and Mississippi are way better than low-income students in New Jersey.
How can we depolarize “gifted education”? (Flypaper)
Student Achievement Is Down Overall — But Kids at the Bottom Are Sinking Faster (The 74)
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